BOONE, North Carolina, Dec. 12 -- Appalachian Voices issued the following news release: * * * Amid new coal mergers, new Department of Labor safeguard closes "self-insurance" loopholes that currently allow industry to dump liabilities on Black Lung Trust Fund * * * COAL COUNTRY - Today, the Biden Administration's Department of Labor released a new rule to address a long-abused loophole that allows coal companies to walk away from their legal duty to pay benefits to miners who worked for them  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today paid tribute to four additional Senators who will be leaving the United States Senate at the end of the 118th Congress--U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Jon Tester (D-MT), Bob Casey (D-PA), and Mitt Romney (R-UT). On Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Durbin said: "Sherrod Brown spent 50 years in public office... includi  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Energy and Fuels, a peer-reviewed scientific journal from the American Chemical Society that says it publishes research in the intersection of chemistry and chemical engineering and non-nuclear energy and fuels, published research articles on the following topics in its Nov. 21, 2024, edition (Vol. 38, Issue 22): Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * * Advances and Outlook on Desulfurization and Utilization of Tire Pyrolysis Oil: A Review * Advances in Quantum Dot Ap  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: BISMARCK, N.D. Senator John Hoeven today announced that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has formed a partnership with Talon Metals in North Dakota to fund research into methods for enhanced recovery of nickel from U.S. domestic nickel mineral formations. Such research will: Increase domestic capacity for battery manufacture. This builds upon a Department of Energy (D  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-North Carolina, chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following statement on Dec. 11, 2024: * * * Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to the Biden-Harris administration's final rule affecting the increased self-insurance liability obligations of coal production companies: "The Biden-Harris DOL is hanging the coal industry out to d  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Dec. 10 [Category: Libraries] -- The American Library Association issued the following news release: CHICAGO The Public Library Association (PLA) has selected more than 130 public libraries across 42 states to host digital literacy workshops, powered by a generous $2.7 million contribution from AT&T. The PLA Digital Literacy Workshop Incentive and the new PLA Digital Navigator Workshop Incentive support public libraries in their work of improving basic digital skills among fa  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: Knoxville, T.N. Today, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is closing its public comment period on its 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). The IRP is the federal utility's long-term energy plan that maps out how it plans to provide reliable energy for its ten million customers over the coming decades. Throughout the comment period, Sierra Club members submitted over a thousand comments, calling  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Dec. 11 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice issued the following news release: Today, the Supreme Court denied a requested stay of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) legacy coal ash rule by Eastern Kentucky Power Cooperative. This matter will now return to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to decide on the validity of the rule. The EPA's Legacy Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) Surface Impoundment Rule, issued earlier this year, addres  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Congressman Don Beyer (D-Va.) reintroduced the Healthy Climate and Family Security Act, legislation to price carbon through a 'cap and dividend' approach. This simple, fair, and effective plan would address the dangers of climate change and put more money in the pockets of hardworking Americans, increasing their spending power and growing our entire economy. "  more

GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- The World Economic Forum issued the following news release: * * * * The Net Zero Industry Tracker 2024 shows a recent decline in emissions in eight hard-to-abate sectors, despite an overall increase in global emissions, but warns they remain far off the pace to achieve net zero by 2050. * $30 trillion in additional investments will be required to reach net zero - over half of which will need to fall outside these eight sectors - highlighting the urgent  more